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Editor's note: A number of observant readers noticed a serious error in April's Lessons Learned column. Here's a sampling of the letters we received about it. Thanks for helping correct the mistake!
I just finished reading your Aquatics International April 2006 article "Getting Burned" and noticed a rather glaring error. While caustic soda is used with gas chlorination systems, it is used to raise the pH of the pool water, not lower it. If the caustic feeder was plugged, the pH would drop due to the formation of hydrochloric acid and not go "up and up."
Kurt Engelmann
Aquatics ...